{"id":2364,"date":"2011-01-18T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:38:59","slug":"in-romania-im-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/01\/18\/in-romania-im-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"In Romania, I&#8217;m HUGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/battle-of-the-planets\/episode82.jpg\" alt=\"Who is this guy\" class=alignright \/>A minor admin note: I help admin a friend&#8217;s forum and he&#8217;s been getting hit by a ridonkulous number of spambots lately; when I went to check my own forums it wasn&#8217;t so bad, but when I checked here&#8230; WOOOO!  I&#8217;m apparently big in Romania with users who have names <em>identical to users who already comment on the blog plus one or two letters<\/em> (my favorites were &#8220;PapaStud&#8221; and &#8220;Gapporina&#8221; and &#8220;softsoftwebsXXX&#8221;).  So needless to say, I deleted a bunch (~250) of bogus blog accounts today that had never commented.  If I deleted a valid account &#8211; one <em>not<\/em> signed up for by a toaster &#8211; in error, my apologies.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s decided to beef up their spambot game all of a sudden, but between the two sites&#8230; <em>they&#8217;re gettin&#8217; on my nerves.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minor admin note: I help admin a friend&#8217;s forum and he&#8217;s been getting hit by a ridonkulous number of spambots lately; when I went to check my own forums it wasn&#8217;t so bad, but when I checked here&#8230; WOOOO! I&#8217;m apparently big in Romania with users who have names identical to users who already comment on the blog plus one or two letters (my favorites were &#8220;PapaStud&#8221; and &#8220;Gapporina&#8221; and &#8220;softsoftwebsXXX&#8221;). So needless to say, I deleted a bunch (~250) of bogus blog accounts today that had never commented. If I deleted a valid account &#8211; one not signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-with-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}